Posted on 04/12/2021 9:29:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The bust, which shows the Bard with moustache and goatee, was believed to have been installed several years after his death in 1616, meaning it was likely not an accurate likeness.
But now expert Professor Lena Cowen Orlin has said it was 'highly likely' that Shakespeare commissioned the monument, which could have been modelled from life by a sculptor who knew him.
How Shakespeare really looked has been a matter of debate because of uncertainty around the reliability of existing portraits of him.
Along with the effigy, the only work which definitively depicts him is the engraving which appears on the title page of the First Folio - the first compilation of his works - which was produced in 1623, after the writer's death.
Perhaps the most famous painting - the Cobbe Portrait - has been argued by some critics to in fact show fellow writer Sir Thomas Overbury.
Another, the Chandos portrait, which was painted between 1600 and 1610, can not definitely be said to depict Shakespeare.
It was previously thought that the bust in Shakespeare's funerary monument at his local church in the West Midlands by the poet’s son-in-law, Dr John Hall.
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This is all propaganda. The local government school teaches that he was a woman of color.
Bacon, again with that paleo diet...
My apologies, the image used turned out to be Getty Images (I didn't notice until I'd posted the topic, and have reported it) so here's another.
Introduction to Shakespeare. William Shakespeare Born 1564, died 1616 Born 1564, died 1616 Wrote 37 plays Wrote 37 plays Wrote over 150 sonnets.
Interesting. Thanks for the link.
That’s show biz.
Read “Dark Lady” about how Amelia Bassano, a lady poet, wrote many of Shakespeare’s plays. More credible than the Shakespeare fake news
Nah, just a good tan. It was a sunny year in the UK, that year.
Hmmmm... orange man bad?
My pleasure.
Rubbish.
Why didn’t Shakespeare take a selfie? I’ll tell you why because he was threatened to be a white imperialist man by his rivals, especially by Ben Johnson who didn’t like Shakespeare because he didn’t go to football matches in Europe and act like a drunken swine. Ben Johnson got knifed by a white man which he thought just proves his theory on white supremacy. Francis Bacon also didn’t like Shakespeare for different reasons. Francis thought using numbers was racist. Shakespeare once mentioned that he added up all the money he received from his plays and Bacon thought that was racist. Back then only the Greeks and Arabs were allowed to use math, otherwise it was cultural appropriation. However, Shakespeare lived a good life but there was always this constant conspiracy surrounding him, probably cause by the Duke of Oxford. The Duke felt that Climate Change affected Shakespeare’s life and that he had only 20 years to live, so he recommended Shakespeare be treated with leaches that don’t leave a carbon trail. Shakespeare was so distraught with this that he penned Hamlet and it was originally going to be called Bloodlet — where everybody kills each other in the end — as a symbol for Global Warming. The Duke got wind of it and thought Shakespeare was razzing him and that set off a firestorm. The Duke wanted all the bathrooms changed into transgender washrooms just to confuse Shakespeare when he visited Oxford and then the Duke really got into Critical Theory and Wokeness in a vicious big way. He had all the pictures of Shakespeare ripped down in Oxford for being an old white man. That’s why nobody really knows what Shakespeare looked like, except his mom.
All they have to do is look at a portrait of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, if they want to know what “Shake-speare” looked like.
That was very good!
Up until he died, anyway, after which William Shakespeare continued to write his plays, like the others in his own name, including King Lear, MacBeth, Antony and Cleo, The Tempest, and Henry VIII.
Read “Shakespeare by Another Name” by Mark Anderson.
I personally don’t care who wrote the plays. I have no emotional investment in the authorship nor do I own a souvenir shop on Stratford-upon-Avon.
The author makes a very compelling, almost irrefutable case, that de Vere was the author.
The Book of Sir Thomas More: Shakespeare's only surviving literary manuscript
Sir Edmund Tylney
1666: The Great Fire of London
My ass.
LOL
My pleasure.
This is your response to a book you haven’t read?
I thought better of you than that.
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